The Innkeeper's Review
Jun. 28th, 2013 06:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluegargantuaHey,
Based on a random recommendation from io9.com I picked up a copy of The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S. Beagle. It's an interesting little fantasy novel where each chapter is told from a different character's POV. It starts with a young man named Tikat who loses his childhood sweetheart in a drowning accident. A couple days after the accident, he sees a mysterious woman in black raise his girlfriend from the dead and they take off. So of course, he takes off after them.
The story is mostly about the dead girl Lukassa, Lal, the woman who raised her and Nyateneri. It's also, obviously, about Karsh, the Innkeeper where the three women wind up and Rosseth who works there as a stableboy. And Tikat. And a fox. There's a lot of characters, but they rotate through as narrator quickly and easily and it's easy to get caught up in their individual stories as well as the larger issue, a deadly duel between two wizards.
It seemed a little slow in the first half, but it takes a bit to get all the pieces in place and once they are, things really go. There are a couple of fantastic fight scenes and the magical war is both reality-warping and very subtle all at once.
All in all, a fun read.
later
Tom
Based on a random recommendation from io9.com I picked up a copy of The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S. Beagle. It's an interesting little fantasy novel where each chapter is told from a different character's POV. It starts with a young man named Tikat who loses his childhood sweetheart in a drowning accident. A couple days after the accident, he sees a mysterious woman in black raise his girlfriend from the dead and they take off. So of course, he takes off after them.
The story is mostly about the dead girl Lukassa, Lal, the woman who raised her and Nyateneri. It's also, obviously, about Karsh, the Innkeeper where the three women wind up and Rosseth who works there as a stableboy. And Tikat. And a fox. There's a lot of characters, but they rotate through as narrator quickly and easily and it's easy to get caught up in their individual stories as well as the larger issue, a deadly duel between two wizards.
It seemed a little slow in the first half, but it takes a bit to get all the pieces in place and once they are, things really go. There are a couple of fantastic fight scenes and the magical war is both reality-warping and very subtle all at once.
All in all, a fun read.
later
Tom
